From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422844AbXCOGdz (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422851AbXCOGdz (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:55 -0400 Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net ([206.46.252.42]:58216 "EHLO vms042pub.verizon.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422844AbXCOGdy (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:33:53 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Subject: Re: [OT] Re: New thread RDSL, post-2.6.20 kernels and amanda (tar) miss-fires In-reply-to: <20070315052845.GR943@1wt.eu> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Willy Tarreau , ray-gmail@madrabbit.org Message-id: <200703150233.53357.gene.heskett@gmail.com> Organization: Organization? very little MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <200703130428.11014.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <200703142312.48852.gene.heskett@gmail.com> <20070315052845.GR943@1wt.eu> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 15 March 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote: [...] >with "/bin/tar -f - >/tmp/test/", you ask bash to open the file > "/tmp/test/" for write, then start tar and pass this file as its > stdout. Obviously this is wrong. I think that what you're trying to do > is send extracted files to /tmp/test, which is what '-C' is for. Also, > you need to specify a command for tar. You didn't. I bet if you do the > following, it will work : > >[root@coyote data]# dd if=00010.coyote._lib.1 bs=32k skip=1 | > /bin/gzip -dc | /bin/tar -C /tmp/test/ -xf - > >Now, Gene, this is becoming totally off-topic right here. My apologies, I've been corrected, thanks for your patience. And I'll see if I can get that text in the amanda file headers amended too. >Regards, >Willy -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. -- H.W. Longfellow